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Aww... impressive cgi hair detail. Compare it to the filtered hair on the polar bears in The Golden Compass.

Not fair

Here is the article from hometheatermagazine that I picked up regarding The Golden Compass of which they named the "Best Picture Quality-Live Action" :

"We're taking on the DNR police and online conspiracy theorists with this pick. The Golden Compass offers the most convincing and filmlike sense of depth and front-to-back dimensionality we've seen. On a large screen, it feels like you could walk right into Lyra's world in the north. Fine textural details are abundant, and the imaginative and expansive CG effects create this world with astonishing, look-through-the-window clarity. The picture quality is nothing short of pure immersion and a reference for the format.

All I can say is watch Prince Caspian and see what "Fine textural details" really looks like.

Here is the article from hometheatermagazine that I picked up regarding The Golden Compass of which they named the "Best Picture Quality-Live Action" :

"We're taking on the DNR police and online conspiracy theorists with this pick. The Golden Compass offers the most convincing and filmlike sense of depth and front-to-back dimensionality we've seen. On a large screen, it feels like you could walk right into Lyra's world in the north. Fine textural details are abundant, and the imaginative and expansive CG effects create this world with astonishing, look-through-the-window clarity. The picture quality is nothing short of pure immersion and a reference for the format.

Unbelievable.

"Fine textural details are abundant"? Crazy. The Golden Compass is one of the worst titles I have seen in terms of what appears to be DNR.

not a bad DVD imho.. but studios really don't seem to give a flying f*ck about quality most of the time, some DVDs are just shocking (with regards to the 'downrezzing' discussion - you can always make a much better version yourself by downsampling a HD copy)

9GB allows you 2 hours of 10mb/s content.. if studios squeezed the most out of the DVD format i'd feel a lot better about shelling out for a movie.

I think you're cherry picking a bit. Practical reality is closer to what... 8.2 gigs or something? Then there's menus, trailers, and even a few bonus features 90% of the time.

The IMAX portions of the DK are certainly reference, and I would put those scenes among the best I have seen on my RS1. The rest, no, but not nearly as bad as some have made it out to be. I would certainly put on any IMAX DK scene before anything in Prince Caspian for "demo" purposes, but that is just me. Prince Caspian does look fantastic though, I agree even if not quite up to the IMAX portions of the Dark Knight IMO which are in a class of their own (IMO).

And this is Mpeg-2 we're talking about, not one of the newer codecs that specialize in getting the most out of lower bit rates.

hehe.. don't you love a response that's a month late

i didn't forget about those things - i just don't think there's any need to put them on the same disc.

how many people even watch special features? studios could easily release a bog standard "movie only" disc and a 2 disc "special edition" which has all those extra features with menus. how many of us abhor menus - taking 5 minutes to finish loading before we can simply hit 'play'

with 6 different regions there's no need for 6 different audio tracks, i would always prefer to see 1, with appropriate subtitles for the region. directors commentaries may be the exception i suppose - can't put those on the extra features disc, but then they are low bitrate stereo tracks.

I just watched Prince Caspian blu-ray and was surprised how good it was. I think i may have I liked it a bit better than the first one actually. Dawn Treader has the potential to be a big hit. Its got a much more commercial adventure plot line that should translate to the screen very well.